The game's back on, baby!
The UK Supreme Court has ruled that Boris Johnson's prorogation of parliament was unlawful, after a court in London ruled that it was not a legal matter and therefore okay to do, but a Scottish court ruled that you're not allowed to suspend parliament if you're doing it for legal reasons. So all the delights of parliamentary screaming matches are back on the menu, and from a legal perspective, never actually stopped in the first place. Hope you're not a vegetarian, because there's going to be a lot of beef tomorrow!
I'm actually in two minds about this, really. I never expected the courts to find so overwhelmingly in favour of my beloved Brexit traitor allies, because you're meant to prorogue parliament every so often to reset things, and that's meant to happen roughly once a year, and we're now well past double that. It's like if you saved up loads of holiday at work, working every day and accruing tons of leave, and then, when the auditors show up to check the quality of everyone's work, you conveniently use all your leave in one go to disappear to Spain for three weeks. Everyone knows you're doing it to avoid scrutiny, but should it really be illegal? Especially when parliament isn't meant to keep sitting for this long anyway. It's like if everyone loved
Leicester's Premier League season so much that they decided it shouldn't end, and that rather than start a new season, everyone should just keep playing that season forever.
Also, they've passed the law to compel Boris Johnson to ask for another extension now; the only thing really left to settle is to make sure he does it, which I am confident he will. (As an aside, if anyone wants to see the Operation Yellowhammer document, the government's own predictions for what will happen under a no-deal Brexit,
here it is, released a few weeks ago).
Of course, Boris Johnson still has his supporters.
This poor guy seems to be generating some online hate for supporting him (or rather, "Joris Bohnson") while guilty of being a bit of a 20-watt lightbulb, intellectually. I could never support such cruelty. For one thing, I've been calling Boris Joris Bohnson for weeks. It's hilarious literally every time you do it. For another thing, this guy looks just like my boss, and my boss is from Stoke too, so they could be related, and I don't want to get in trouble.